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title: 'Tenant Virtualization'
sidebarTitle: 'Introduction'
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## **What is a tenant?**

A tenant is primarily a company, an organization, or a workspace in your product that contains a group of users. A SaaS application provides services to multiple tenants. Tenant is the basic building block of all SaaS applications. Every SaaS feature and experience is built on top of tenants. Nile has built-in tenant virtualization, which makes it easy, reliable, and cost-effective to develop and support SaaS use cases across the globe.

## How Virtualization works?
